Since Snowden, the program has been modified, but only slightly, and in ways that may actually increase its efficiency by making it more targeted and excluding more of the noise of ordinary communications — large bureaucracies, which the N.S.A. has become, do not tend to make judicious choices in the absence of scrutiny.
Bidding for the job -- which will most likely be modified, with only a small group of prequalified companies involved, to speed the process -- will begin this month.
So far, for these applications, an emphasis has been mainly on graphene and on modifications of its chemical and electronic properties with heteroatoms such as N, P, or S. That graphene, to enhance its surface properties, often needs to be modified not only chemically but also to increase its surface area and porosity.
Since the text can no longer be modified, the only option at this point is whether or not to join.
The redox state can be modified not only by various pharmacological compounds [ 44], but also by the overexpression or inhibition of the related enzymes.
These are not addressed here and therefore Figure 6 should be modified to only reflect major conclusions here.
The instrument must be modified for pharmacists but has only been tested on a small sample for this purpose [ 13].
A third issue is that the DNA of living cells can be modified only very laboriously and usually at one site at a time.
The commercially available software, which will be modified only slightly for the veterans study, presents challenges that increase in difficulty in increments small enough that fine-tuning adjustments can be made and then reinforced in the users' brains.
One potential remedy: make passing a standardized competency test or attaining an industry-recognized credential the default requirement for a journeyman's certificate — to be modified only in instances where the program sponsor can make a persuasive case.
